About Me

I'm a news associate at The Wall Street Journal based in New York. I'm most interested in housing, health care delivery and big data (not in that order). I was most recently a research assistant at the Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research at the Brown University Schol of Public Health. You can find my work in The Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, JAMA, The Boston Globe, Gothamist and other places.

I graduated from Brown University in 2025 with a dual Sc.B. in Statistics and A.B. in Public Health. While at Brown, I was editor-in-chief of The Brown Daily Herald and interned at the National Institutes of Health. In my free time, I co-run a free summer research program for high school students.

Writing

Here is a selection of my work:

• Transparency Reveals A Billing And Payments System In Need Of Overhaul — Health Affairs Forefront.
• The loophole that could allow another private equity debacle in Mass. health care — The Boston Globe.
• How Massachusetts’s New Health Care Reform Takes Aim at Private Equity — Health Affairs Forefront.
• The Corporate Backdoor to Medicine: How MSOs Are Reshaping Physician Practices — Milbank Memorial Fund.
• Forget Office Conversions. Cities Are Turning Old Hospitals Into Residential Housing. — The Wall Street Journal.
• California’s Failed Bid To Regulate Private Equity Investment In Health Care — Health Affairs Forefront.
• Related Closes In on Deal to Rescue Notoriously Stalled Massive Housing Project — The Wall Street Journal.
• The Anti-Adam Neumann of the Co-Working Industry — The Wall Street Journal.
• San Francisco Is Sinking in Bad Hotel Debt — The Wall Street Journal.
• Hotel Owners and Union Clash Over Proposal to Regulate Nonunion Hotels — The Wall Street Journal.
• America’s Smallest Apartments Are Getting Even Smaller — The Wall Street Journal.
• Foreign Buyers of U.S. Homes Pay Record Prices, but Sales Dwindle — The Wall Street Journal.
• Exclusive Ivy League Social Clubs Are Desperate for Members — The Wall Street Journal.
• Funeral for NJ's late Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver concludes 3-day state service — Gothamist.
• Inside a Brooklyn housing complex, where a third of tenants face eviction — Gothamist.
• NYC's eviction hotspots: Tracking the 10K removals since moratorium ended — Gothamist.
• As actors and writers strike continues, NYC freelancers brace for months without pay — Gothamist.
• City to open migrant relief center near old psychiatric hospital in Queens — Gothamist.
• Nearly 400 Department of Transportation employees sue city, alleging unpaid overtime — Gothamist.
• Queens residents concerned over migrant shelter on the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital — Gothamist.
• The NYPD doesn't report where it deploys police. So scientists used AI, dashcams to find out. — Gothamist.
• NYC says it's winning war on rats as monthly complaints remain below last year's epic highs — Gothamist.
• NYC broker fees are skyrocketing. The City Council is trying to put the fees on landlords. — Gothamist.
• MAP: Harlem Council race leads turnout in NYC primary election — Gothamist.
• NYC board votes to increase rents on 1 million rent-stabilized units by 3% — Gothamist.
• Rat complaints in NYC fell 15% vs. a year ago. But are we just getting used to them? — Gothamist.

Research

Here are some of my recent projects:

• Gaudino, Stephen J; Beaupre, Michael; Lin, Xun; Joshi, Preet; Rathi, Sonika; McLaughlin, Patrick A; Kempen, Cody; Mehta, Neil; Eskiocak, Onur; Yueh, Brian. 2021. IL-22 receptor signaling in Paneth cells is critical for their maturation, microbiota colonization, Th17-related immune responses, and anti-Salmonella immunity. Mucosal Immunology 14(2): 389–401.
• Nguyen, Thuy D; Whaley, Christopher M; Simon, Kosali; Mehta, Neil; Yu, Hao; McBain, Ryan K; Mehrotra, Ateev; Cantor, Jonathan H. 2025. Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Care Sector. JAMA Health Forum 6(11): e255029–e255029.
• Duanmu, Hongyi; Ren, Thomas; Li, Haifang; Mehta, Neil; Singer, Adam J; Levsky, Jeffrey M; Lipton, Michael L; Duong, Tim Q. 2022. Deep learning of longitudinal chest X-ray and clinical variables predicts duration on ventilator and mortality in COVID-19 patients. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 21(1): 1–15.
• Babar, Mustufa; Jamil, Hasan; Mehta, Neil; Moutwakil, Ahmed; Duong, Tim Q. 2024. Short-and Long-Term Chest-CT Findings after Recovery from COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics 14(6): 621.
• Singh, Simran; Mehta, Neil; Noh, Madeline; Bond, Keosha; Threats, Megan; Jackson, John; Nnawulezi, Nkiru; Mercedes, Marquisele; Agénor, Madina. 2025. Weight-Based Health Care Discrimination and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Sexual and Gender Minoritized Assigned Female at Birth Adults in the United States. Health Equity 9(1): 22–30.
• Mehta, Neil; Assenov, Assen; Ogletree, Aaron; Farhat, Tilda. 2023. Using a Novel Socioeconomic and Health Indicator Visualization Tool to Improve Minority Health. Value in Health 26(6): S372.
• Noh, Madeline; Mehta, Neil; Kim, Christine; Bond, Keosha; Threats, Megan; Jackson, John W.; Nnawulezi, Nkiru; Agénor, Madina. 2025. Association between healthcare discrimination and medical mistrust among Black sexual and gender minoritized assigned female at birth adults in the United States. LGBT Health.
• Singh, Yashaswini; Murray, Roslyn; Reddy, Megha; Perkins, Jared; Mehta, Neil; Whaley, Christopher; Brown, Erin Fuse. 2025. Private Equity Investments in Physician Practices in Maryland: A Report Prepared for the Maryland Health Care Commission.

Contact Me

Reach me via email: neil[dot]mehta[at]wsj[dot]com. For confidential tips, reach me via Signal at neil.mehta01.

You can also find me on X/Twitter @neilmhta, Linkedin @neilmhta and (most importantly) Spotify @neilmhta.

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